GREEK, ROMAN AND BYZANTINE OBJECTS ... - Hellenic College
GREEK, ROMAN AND BYZANTINE OBJECTS ... - Hellenic College
GREEK, ROMAN AND BYZANTINE OBJECTS ... - Hellenic College
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35. Silver, Latin Imitative Aspron Trachy Nomisma<br />
Latin Interregnum (Constantinople), 1204-1230/37<br />
Obverse<br />
DIAM: 27mm; 3.40 gm<br />
INSCRIBED: [](Jesus<br />
Christ)<br />
Bust of Christ, blessing with right hand,<br />
scroll held in left hand<br />
Reverse<br />
DIAM: 25 mm; 3.40 gm<br />
INSCRIBED: / /(Archangel Michael)<br />
Archangel Michael standing, wearing short military<br />
tunic and cape, in right hand holds scepter with<br />
trefoil tip, in left hand a globus cruciger<br />
36. Silver, Aspron Trachy (Concave) of Theodore I,<br />
Emperor of Nicaea<br />
Byzantine (Nicaea – Magnesia), 1208-1212<br />
Obverse<br />
DIAM: 31mm; 3.70 gm<br />
INSCRIBED: <br />
(Jesus Christ)<br />
Christ seated upon straight-back throne,<br />
blesses with His right hand, holds Gospels<br />
in His left<br />
Reverse<br />
DIAM: 28mm; 3.70 gm<br />
INSCRIBED: No inscription preserved<br />
Standing figure of emperor on left<br />
and of St. Theodore on right,<br />
holding between them long scepter,<br />
crowned by a star <br />
Emperor wears stemma, divitision,<br />
jeweled loros of simplified type<br />
and sagion; in his right hand holds<br />
sheathed sword, point downward,<br />
Saint wears short military tunic,<br />
breastplate, and sagion, holds in his left<br />
hand sheathed sword, point downward<br />
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